Feminism

Most of Gitte Villesen's works made since 1994.

Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art.

Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art (available in English edition).

Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).

First monograph on Californian artist / musician's surreal-oriented universe (collages, sculptures, costumes, performances, music, films and videos), with essays by Doug Harvey, Stéphanie Moisdon and a conversation between the artist and Mike Kelley.

A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.

The 4th issue of May makes an atypical choice by publishing a very large section of archival material coming from what is called the“feminist nebula” in Italy in the 1970s. Beyond their great historical, aesthetic and literary value, these documents contribute to the line of thinking pursued by the magazine to re-posit the terms of a social critique in relation to the critique of present-day artistic production.

An essay on Jean Genet and the gender performance.

A new series of works engaging with the interaction between politics and glamour.

Reference monograph.

The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.

The live recording of the performance given by the artists at NBK, Berlin, 17 August 2008

First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.

Between critical writing and visual art practice.

A collection of previously unpublished poetic texts by ORLAN, accompanied with photos by Fabrice Lévêque: a new highlighting on her work.

Limited edition with a signed silkscreen enhanced by ORLAN's own lips.

First monograph on the Californian artist.

The writings by Annette Messager assembed by Marie-Laure Bernadac appear to be exuberant, poetic, trivial. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.

A fully illustrated, artist-designed catalogue.

Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.

A limited and signed edition of the monograph Mot pour mot, with original artwork by the artist.

First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel, published first in 1978 during the exile of the artist in New York.

First monograph of the artist, presenting her figures of unfired clay, which grotesquely exaggerate the characteristic traits and trademarks of female sexuality.

Various artists and authors use two writers' correspondence as a primary source to develop an artistic and literary falsification.

Art and glamour as spaces for transformation of the self.

An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."

Poem by Sherrie Levine; texts by Susanne Anna, Christian Bernard, Michel Assenmaker, Erich Franz and Susan Kandel.

The texts in Group.sex discuss political groups and languages, abstract radicalism and art, feminism and bohemianism, social hierarchies, and telematic friendship.

An artist's book focusing on the question of copy (reproductions of Huysmans and Degas' works).

Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.

The first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal "New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media", from 1977, arguably the most important feminist statement in the history of experimental music, illuminating the work of Johanna M. Beyer, Annea Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Megan Robert, Ruth Anderson, and Laurie Anderson.

A collective manifesto for feminist art schools.

An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.

An overview of Agnès Varda's work, from her films to her visual works: collages, video art, installations and photographs (especially those made in Portugal in the 1950s).

The third volume of the Wattis Institute's annual reader is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.

First monograph of Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: an attempt to expand the Polish and European iconosphere and art history with representations of Roma culture.

A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.

An unprecedented insight into Louise Bourgeois' art by Jenny Holzer.

Monograph gathering together a selection of works by Miriam Cahn and the texts of authors such as Alberto Salvadori, Luigi Fassi, Carolin Emcke, Dieter Roelstraete, Estelle Hoy and Francesca Recchia.

What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating?

An anthological and retro-prospective publication on the work of Mexican artist Eugenia Martínez, introducing re-sensitizations to the local and global feminist movements that are being shaped and transformed every day.

The third collaboration between Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma—their first album produced together in the same studio: an electroacoustic, poetic, fluid and sensitive dialogue between the two experimentalists.

The second volume of the Wattis's annual reader, ​A Series of Open Questions.

The first issue of the Cahiers du centre national du graphisme (National Graphic Design Center), around the relationship between graphic design and feminism (new edition).

Newly remastered by Rashad Becker for this vinyl edition, “Echo” finds Félicia Atkinson synching her feelings into a watercolour suite of solo keys, voice and field recordings, unfurling 40 minutes of new breathtaking music.

Four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) discussing their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects.

This reader revisits the formidable legacy of Russian revolutionary,  feminist, political refugee and diplomat Alexandra Kollontaï (1872–1952) in light of current feminist struggles. Includes the first English translation of the 1977 biographical play Kollontai by Swedish writer Agneta Pleijel.

The reprint of Pati Hill's 1979 book, composed of images and texts by Hill through which she intended to contextualize and explain her working methodology to Jill Kornblee, her New York gallerist.